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BEAUMONT BASIN WATERMASTER

MEMORANDUM NO. 16-19

Date: December 7, 2016

From: Hannibal Blandon, ALDA Inc.

Subject: Status Report on Water Level Monitoring throughout the
Beaumont Basin through November 29, 2016

Recommendation: No recommendation.

At the present time, there are 12 monitoring wells collecting water level information on an
hourly basis at various locations throughout the basin. In addition, there are two
monitoring probes collecting barometric pressures at opposite ends of the Beaumont
Basin. The location of active monitoring wells is depicted in the attached Figure No. 1.

One additional monitoring well, located in the Sunny-Cal Egg Ranch area, is being used
to collect water level; however, a formal contract with the current property owners has not
been established. It is anticipated that a separate well located in this property will be
used for monitoring purposes in the future since the current well is too close to BCVWD
Well No. 29.

With regards to the Icon Warehouse (a.k.a. the Downing Orchard well), the contract has
been approved, but the equipment has not been installed because the communication
cable ordered for this well has not been received from the manufacturer. It is anticipated
that the equipment will be installed today after this meeting. The successful installation
of monitoring equipment at this well will bring the total of monitoring sites to 14, four short
of the ultimate goal of 18 sites.

Water level information could not be downloaded from any of the sites during our last visit
as the Data Logger instrument is not working properly and the associated software
malfunctioned. Solinst, the equipment manufacturer, has been contacted on this issue
and have requested that we send the logger for repair/replacement since it is still under
the 3-year warranty.

Since the water level data could not be downloaded, we logged all the wells by hand to
determine their depth to water. The attached table shows the resulting water level
elevations (Fall 2016) and compares them to recorded levels in the summer of 2015 and
2016. Observations about changes in water level at individual wells are also noted in the
table.

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